Driving Change by Stripping Back What No Longer Serves. Change rarely fails because of a lack of ideas.
It fails because organisations carry weight they no longer question.

In the mid-1970s, progressive rock dominated the industry: long solos, technical perfection, elaborate production, stadium spectacle. It was impressive, but it had become inaccessible and bloated. 

Punk emerged as a direct response: Three chords. Short songs. No permission required. It cleared the space.

This session applies that same disciplined subtraction to organisational change. When strategy becomes over-engineered, when process replaces momentum, and when expertise turns into gatekeeping, progress slows. The answer is clarity, constraint, and collective action.

This is a structured intervention in how change actually happens:

 

CURRICULUM SNAPSHOT

1. Year Zero
Participants identify one organisational “Dinosaur” — a behaviour or process that creates drag — and make it visible as the first act of change.

2. The Three-Chord Strategy
A live initiative is stripped back to its essential core. Complexity is reduced by design. Change becomes clearer and more executable.

3. Brick the Rules
Using LEGO under deliberate anti-polish constraints, participants build fast prototypes of their simplified strategy. Physical modelling surfaces assumptions and sharpens intent.

4. The Wild Soul Network
Participants identify informal influencers who can help move the idea laterally and bypass bureaucratic delay.

5. Forming the Bands
Participants cluster around shared intent, forming small alliances committed to carrying the simplified strategy forward. Change becomes collective rather than individual.

6. Making It Inevitable
Insight is translated into clear next moves, with visible ownership and social reinforcement.